Sergio Perez pulls out all stops on first day at McLaren office

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Kevin EasonMotor Racing Correspondent

Last updated at 3:13PM, January 9 2013

Sergio Perez arrived in the company car, that is the £200,000 sports car he
drove to the glittering McLaren factory that sits like a spaceship plopped
down on the outskirts of Woking, Surrey.

The £1 million car, the Formula One machine that Perez will race this season,
is still waiting for him and he cannot wait to get into it. Perez has taken
on the biggest job in Formula One this year, not just becoming a McLaren
driver but replacing Lewis Hamilton, a former world champion and one of the
team’s most successful drivers. More than that, Hamilton had the